Wow, that post is amazing. They observed that their page worked poorly because it had a lot of DOM nodes, and they don’t even discuss the idea of trying to make

Wow, that post is amazing. They observed that their page worked poorly because it had a lot of DOM nodes, and they don’t even discuss the idea of trying to make a usable page with fewer DOM nodes. Instead they add all manner of complexity and more nodes (!) to make it sort of work. A web browser can render and search a boring pure-HTML syntax-highlighted source file just fine.